CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.] THE PLAGUE AT NOUMEA.

Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 4, 5 January 1900, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.— COPYRIGHT.] THE PLAGUE AT NOUMEA.

THE BRITISH CONSUL STATES THE POSITION. [press association.] SYDNEY, 4th January. The Premier has received a report trom the British Consul at Noumea with reference to the outbreak of plague, in which it is stated that fourteen cases were reported to the authorities between Christmas Day and 2nd January. Ten of these cases proved fatal. A small supply of Professor Ilaffkine's prophylactic reached Sydney last night. Tho authorities at Noumea have asked that a portion of it should be sent to them. The Government is considering the matter. (Received January 5, 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Owing ,to the supply of the Haffkine serum being so small, the Government is unable to send any to Noumea. [The Seychelles, one of the groups mentioned yesterday as having been declared by the Victorian Government to be infected places, are a British possession, having been wrested from tho French in 1794. They are politically a part of the colony of Mauritius, though 950 miles distant from it.] | FURTHER DEATHS REPORTED. NOUMEA, This Day. Two further deaths from the plague are reported, those of a free European and a convict. The latter had been employed in cleaning infected quarters. The Government is Arcing the proprietors of premises in the infected parts of Noumea to destroy them.